The trailer for Worlds Divided was really well liked, well now here is the full release from The Story's Shadow and I. Another special thanks goes to my amazing girlfriend AliE96, for creating the cover to this story.
-Elsewhere in the Multi-Verse: New York City-
New York City, a shining example of human achievement, that's where a massive battle was currently being fought. Thanos had returned to New York City, with a thirst for vengeance against the Avengers, after they stopped him a few months prior from destroying countless lives. Half of the city was on fire, the other half was full of civilians running for their lives.
"Keep moving, keep moving!" a S.H.I.E.L.D. soldier yelled as she escorted civilians unto a S.H.I.E.L.D. transport that would take them far away from the battle. But elsewhere, the heroes and heroines where preparing to take on Thanos himself...
-Empire State building: New York City-
"It's going to take all of you to take me down!" Power Man hissed as he threw a punch at one of Thanos's alien soldiers, who went flying backwards into several of his colleagues once he landed his right hook.
"Nice move." Spider-Man said in a sincere tone as he jumped into the air, and webbed several enemies to the ground.
"Likewise." Power Man said as he ran forwards like a rampaging bull and tackled several enemies through a steel pillar, making the Empire State building tremble all over for a second. Spider-Man was about to follow his friend when his wrist communicator started beeping.
"Spider-Man!" Nick Fury yelled at the web-slinging hero. "Try to avoid damaging the structure of the building, our technicians said it could come down with even the smallest amount more of structural damage!" Fury yelled at his operative.
"Got it, sir, please tell me you have some heavy hitters on the way, 'cause where barely holding our own up here." Fury said as front-flipped over a plasma shot and delivered a dive-kick to an enemy soldiers chest, knocking him out.
"The Avengers are already engaged with Thanos–" Fury started before he was interrupted.
"I know that, but we need more firepower to deal with this seemingly endless wave of opposition standing between us and them. Can you send the Fantastic Four, or even the Agents of S.M.A.S.H our way?" Spidey asked as his spider-sense went off and he leaned to the side to avoid a plasma shot.
"Stay focused and stay alive, Spider-Man. I'll send you and Power Man some backup." Fury said as the line went dead.
"Hope it's soon." Spider-Man whispered to himself as three ugly alien soldiers suddenly dropped down from a hole in the ceiling above him and drew their plasma rifles...
Twenty minutes had passed since Spidey had requested backup, and it had still not arrived. Currently he and Power Man could be found standing back to back, staring down a circle of at least fifty of Thanos's soldiers.
"This might be it." Power Man whispered to his friend as he took up a s combat stance. "If it is, I'm going down swinging though." he whispered in a determined tone.
"Agreed, no matter how many times they knock me down, I'll always get back up." Spidey whispered as the attackers suddenly screamed and began to close their circle formation... that was until two blue energy beams came down and smashed into several of the attacking aliens, knocking them off the building entirely, Spidey and Power Man looked up to see who their savior was, even though they had a pretty good guess who it was.
"Hope I'm not to late for this party." Nova joked as he landed right next to his friends, his fists glowing blue with cosmic energy.
"Your right on time actually." Power Man said with a smile on his face. "Hope you didn't come alone." he quickly added.
"Hardly." Nova said with a smile on his face as he energy blasted another alien off the building. A few seconds later, slashing sounds could be heard, and another alien fell through the hole in the ceiling, blood oozing from a large laceration, and a few seconds later, a very familiar white and black stripped spandex wearing girl dropped in.
'Looks like the OG's are back together." White Tiger said as she started pouncing on and slashing at her enemies.
I guess that also means–" Spider-Man was unable to finish due to an alien come crashing through a wall, due to a karate kick from Iron Fist.
"Sorry this had to be our reunion." Spider-Man said as he webbed an enemy and hurled him towards Iron Fist, who punched him in the face with a glowing iron fist.
"You kidding Spidey, this is the greatest kind of reunion, one where we get to kick ass–"
"And take names!" White Tiger finished for him as she slashed another alien in the face.
"At least forty of them against the five of us. Needless to say, I like our odds now." Spidey said as he and his friends exchanged a quick look and then charged at their enemies.
-Top of the Empire State building: New York City-
The Avenger where currently battling Thanos himself at the very top of the massive building.
"Heads up!" Cap yelled as Thanos reached into the building itself and pulled out a massive chunk of concrete and threw it at his adversaries.
"You need not worry!" Thor yelled as he threw his hammer at the concrete, smashing it into small pebbles, and slamming into Thanos a few seconds later, but to their surprise, the attack just made him stumble backwards a little as Thor's hammer returned to him.
"How amusing." Thanos mocked in his deep voice as he brought both his purple fists into the ground, and the ensuing shock-wave ripped open the ground causing the whole building to tremble as the fissure roared towards the Avengers.
"If you think that's amusing, than your going to love this!" Hawkeye joked as he somersaulted over the fissure and fired three arrows at Thanos, who didn't even attempt to dodge the arrows as they struck him, and started spreading a coat of ice all over his body, freezing him solid in a few seconds. The momentary feeling of victory was short lived as seconds later, Thanos shattered the ice prison with a roar.
"Where is a raging Hulk when you need one?" Hawkeye asked as Thanos roared again and rushed at the archer and reared back his fist for a punch. Only to have Hulk fall out of they sky and smash Thanos into the ground with his gigantic bare feet.
"What took you so long?" Iron Man asked as she hovered a few feet away. Before Hulk could answer, Thanos threw him off and began exchanging punches with the strongest Avenger. However the battle was shorter than expected when a giant blue horned ball smashed into Thanos and sent him sliding towards the side edge of the building.
"Good timing, Rick." Hulk said as A-Bomb got out of his balled formation and stood tall.
"What's up Avengers?" Rick said as Thanos was just starting to get back to his feet. But before he could Red-Hulk, She-Hulk and Skar landed on the roof, courtesy of the cloaked jet that was hovering above the building.
"Greeny thought you guys could use some extra muscle." Red Hulk said with a cocky smile as he cracked his knuckles and pulled a gun off his back.
"With Thanos, we could use all the muscle we can get." Iron Man said as the Avengers, and Agents of S.M.A.S.H. all took up combat stances, just as Thanos rose to his feet and began laughing.
"Something funny you purple freak!?" Red Hulk roared as he aimed his gun.
"It's amusing how many of you it takes to battle me." Thanos laughed. "No matter how many stand against me, you will all meet the same fate... death!" Thanos roared as he charged at his enemies, the Avengers and agents of S.M.A.S.H. charged right back...
-Elsewhere in the Multi-Verse: Metropolis-
"Seems this dimension has a massive fight on their hands." Cyborg informed Superman as the two of them could be found watching footage of the battle in New York City through the inter-dimensional transporters computer. It had taken three weeks and many attempts. But now Superman and his new regime had unlocked the key to Batman's technology. "Needless to say, this is obviously not the dimension we where looking–"
"It's perfect." Superman said.
"Huh? Not to doubt your judgment, but that is a powerful alien despot leading a huge army against several of this universe's heroes. Not saying we couldn't fix things, but perhaps you'd want a universe where all hope seems lost and you come in out of nowhere to save the day?" Cyborg suggested.
"I understand and you have a point. But look at this: a universe where the heroes are outnumbered by their foes who seemingly constantly press their power and numbers against them. They are fighting, but not hard enough. It's time to show them what real heroes can do." Superman explained.
"Are you sure? Because we have plenty of time to keep looking." Cyborg asked.
"I'm sure, let everyone know. They will need to be prepared when I give the signal." Superman said.
"Signal?" Cyborg grunted.
"You'll know it. Time to usher in the dawn of a new era." Superman said as he moved to the multi-dimensional transporter to enter this new universe in another Multi-Verse.
To be continued...